Hi there,
The max age tells the recording engine to keep data around until the max age is
passed. Since the smallest chunk of data to reason about in the file repository
is a chunk, that usually means a little bit more. It’s only for controlling
what data to keep in the repo - a simple mechanism to limit it.

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Every chunk is self contained. Even though it is not supported, there are
people who simply copy chunks from the repo continuously. I know one example
where this is done in a massive deployment, and where hundreds of thousands of
recordings from select instances are passed through an automated script to look
for certain patterns. A developer estimated 95% of the issues encountered are
solved using nothing but the recording data.
Kind regards,
Marcus
> On 1 Dec 2016, at 21:18, zeo...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Does anyone know a good way to do continuous performance monitoring using JFR
> (JDK8)? I am interested in using this on some apache data pipeline projects
> (Spark, Flink etc). I have used JFR for perf profiling with fixed duration
> before. Continuous monitoring would be quite different.
>
> The ideal scenario is to set up JFR to write to UDP <ip:port> destinations
> with configurable update frequencies. Obviously that is not supported by JFR
> as it stands today. So I tried setting up continuous JFR with maxage=30s and
> running JFR.dump every 30s, to my surprise the time range covered by the
> dumped jfr files does NOT correspond to the maxage parameter I gave. Instead
> the time ranges (FlightRecordingLoader.loadFile(new
> File("xyz.jfr")).timeRange) from successive JFR.dump can be overlapping and
> much bigger than maxage.
>
> So couple of questions for those experienced users of JFR:
>
> -- What exactly is the semantics of maxage?
> I imagined that maxage has 2 effects: discarding events older than maxage and
> aggregating certain metrics (like stacktrace sample counts) over the time
> interval. It appears my understanding was way off.
>
> -- How does the event pool/buffer under consideration for next JFR.dump get
> reset?
> I was hoping every JFR.dump would reset the pool and allow the next JFR.dump
> to output non-overlapping time range. I was also wrong here.
>
> -- Is there any way to do continuous perf monitoring with JFR with a
> configured aggregation and output interval?
> One thing I did notice is that JFR would periodically (default seems 60s)
> flush to chunk files and then rotate chunk files according to maxchunksize
> param. I could use that mechanism to inotify-watch the repository dir and
> just read and parse the chunk files. However there are a few things missing
> if I wanted to go down this route: there is no way to set "maxchunkage"
> (would like to be able to set one as low as 10s), I will need to write some
> custom chunk file parser, not sure if chunk files have all the symbols to
> resolve the typeids.
>
> Thanks!
>
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